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A revised version of the 2005 Real ID Act has been introduced in the US Senate. The revision – the Providing for Additional Security in States' Identification (Pass ID) Act of 2009 – has been proposed by six senators (five Democratic and one Republican), and is supported by the National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL), the National Governors Association (NGA) and the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS).

Barclaycard in the UK has announced that it is increasing its roll out of contactless enabled cards to Barclaycard Gold and Classic cardholders. Customers who receive a new, reissued or replacement Gold or Classic Barclaycard will now receive one of the new cards.

The next generation of chip-based British passports will be delivered under a new ten-year £400 million contract awarded today to De La Rue. The news will be a big blow to the incumbent passport printer 3M Security Printing Systems (SPSL), a division of 3M, which had already been producing biometric passports.

As the host of the Olympics, London will become the focus of the world's attention in 2012. Dave Birch, co-founder and director, Consult Hyperion tells CTT this opportunity gives us the chance to showcase the best of British technology. Areas such as payments, ticketing, and venue management are already attracting a great deal of interest from around the world.

A growing number of countries are now deploying national ID cards to help citizens access services and identify themselves when interacting with both local and national government agencies. Some states issue a simple plastic or printed card that acts as little more than a personal identifier when accessing basic government services. But many are now deploying smart cards, giving citizens even more opportunities to engage with their governments in both the online and offline worlds. When governments opt for smart cards, they invariably require some form of automated biometric technology so the card can always be linked to the cardholder. With more countries choosing eID that combines biometrics with smart cards, there are opportunities for the card to perform an even broader range of functions. Jonas Andersson, VP of Business Development, Precise Biometrics reports.

Cryptography Research, Inc. (CRI) has signed an agreement with Samsung Electronics regarding the use of CRI's patents to enhance the security of Samsung's tamper-resistant smart card chips against Differential Power Analysis (DPA) and related attacks.

Smart cards – in the form of credit and SIM cards – are the most common form of IT processing power on the planet. Credit cards mediate transactions worth trillions of dollars every day while SIM cards facilitate millions of conversations binding together our social and economic worlds. In the last two decades these two tools – more than any other technology – have quietly taken us all into a virtual world held together by information stored on electronic media.

The prepaid industry is becoming a truly worldwide market. It is well established in the US, but is now receiving much more attention globally. Prepaid cards were launched in the mid 1990s in the US and the first programme in Europe can be traced back to 1999. Originally introduced as a more efficient replacement for paper gift certificates, prepaid cards now represent a broad payment category that spans a wide range of applications. This new worldwide market offers huge opportunities. For example, MasterCard has forecast over US$600 billion will be spent globally on prepaid by 2010.